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Fluoride In Tap Water Linked to Bone Cancer

Taken from the Canadian Water Quality Association - Communique
Issue 2241
September 2005

Newly available research, out of Harvard University, links fluoride in tap water, at levels most Americans drink, to osteosarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer. The Environmental Working Group (EWG), as Washington D.C. based organization, urges that fluoride in tap water be declared a known or probable cancer cause, based on this and previous animal and human studies.

A Harvard PhD stated in doctoral thesis, "... for males less than 20 years old, fluoride level in drinking water (about 1 ppm) during growth is associated with an increased risk of osteosarcoma." According to EWG Research dating back decades, much of it government funded, it has long been suggested that fluoride added to drinking water presents a unique cancer risk to the growing bones of young boys.

EWG reports high-quality epidemiological studies show a strong association between fluoride in tap water and osteosarcoma in boys.

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